Random pics in Arrens-Marsous on today's ride. Beautiful! Perfect weather, quiet roads & feeling great. Happy days 
Cruising the Prades Mountains. Awesome quiet roads, views from every one. More kays & climbing than Tourmalet loop!
Today's ride: beautiful route from Spanish coast through vineyards, forests, hills & back. Springtime perfection!
Vilaplana church. Great ride from the Med through villages like this, forests & climbs. Perfect weather. Love it!
Today's ride: beautiful spin in spring sunshine. Random photo stop in Saint-Sever-de-Rustan (abbey in background).
13 days ago was skiing fresh powder here. Now epic snow walls for today's ride! + few zones of, erm, CX training? 
Back from today's ride in the nick of time! Step off bike, crack a beer, watch 6 Nations while I stretch. Great game!
Passing Lac du Gabas out on birthday tonne. Should just make room for all the beer, curry & dessert that's coming! 
Riding through stunning autumn colours. Sometimes not all about the mountains, though they do look amazing today too!
Change from the coast, some nice hills around here too. Village of Hostalric a stand out in it's Autumn colours. Wow!
Just what you want to see on a recovery ride Head NE from Llafranc beach (very pretty place) if you fancy it! 
More beaches & beautiful little villages today. Gotta say am liking the off season here - quiet & perfect weather
Today's ride: From Spanish coast into hills & back, then coastal road dropping down to the occasional beach. Awesome!
From beach, inland into rolling hills & finale over Jaizkibel coastal road. Latter in particular has amazing views!
Today's ride: popped over into Spain, as you do It's all Basque Country though & such a beautiful region. Love it!
At last! New signage & decked seating area atop the Tourmalet. So everyone finally knows where your pics are taken
Today's ride: Font Romeu -> 34km descent (blast down the N116) -> beautiful climbs back to the start. Love this area!
Port de Lers & Col de Port. Former a testy little bugger who's stats don't do it justice. Absolutely beautiful tho.
Today's ride: Just a short one, but found some crazy hairpins above Verdun here in the Ariege. Niiiiice
Beautiful day for big cols but August weekend means lots of tourist traffic up there. 105km in the foothills instead!
Insert obligatory beer... erm... banana shot! Today's perfection at Hautacam & Col du Tramessel. Cheers!?
Smashed my PR up East side of the Tourmalet. Loving 25-30C temps so pretty Aussie still - locals hate this 'heat'!
Ride to Atlantic & back via some, erm, interesting 'roads'! It ain't Sydney 
But then again - it ain't Sydney
Today's ride: little recovery spin in more rolling terrain... with 20% pinches thrown in because... Basque region!
Today's ride: Basque Epic from St-Jean-Pied-de-Port. Brutal gradients. Beautiful scenery. To Spanish border & back.
Sublime Col d'Aspin today: PR the climb, home in time for stage 1 of le Tour, beer & delicious lunch. Life is good
Riding past snowdrifts in full summer kit: what a day! Personal best time for Tourmalet West too #FasterWithAge
What a morning for a ride. Stunning up at Gazost. Sealed road in this valley ends 9.9km from home, which is handy!
Lucky to say endless awesome parcours within 10km of home. This spot only 2.5km for example. Yes, v.lucky! #StaySafe
Mates teasing me about lack of MTB action, so here you go: Bike. Dirt. Mountains! Just another day in paradise
Well slap my thigh! Col d'Aspin... on Feb 16... in shorts! Set a PR too so double awesome! Happy days!
Temporary shelving setup in the garage for training. Strangely motivational... hmmmmmmm...
Today's ride: found a deer trapped by wire fence so helped it escape & run off hopefully unscathed. PS: was nippy!
Today's ride: Beautiful trundle through autumn colours, inc. this section of forest dirt. Yes planned, not lost!
Today's ride: Cols Ichere & Lie. No big climbs as taking it easy. Not that several km of almost 10% is *that* easy
Today's ride: Short but sweet. Overlooking the Baretous valley & later getting stuck in animal traffic. Baaaaaa!
Today's ride: rolling along a supply branch of the Canal du Midi. And up to a random castle... because... why not?
Today's ride: Lac de Saint Ferreol. Beautiful area I think is bit like a mini Black Forest - sadly minus beer/cake
Look who finally joined me up the Aspin, yay! Crazy weather for end of August but only slightly damp so no probs
Today's ride: Erm... where's the mountains & what's this blue stuff? Cruising between beaches on the Medoc coast.
Today's ride: what's wrong with this picture? Answer: not much! Beautiful spin even if a little 'lost' at times
On today's ride: little bridge crossing the River Ousse. Still so many little gems like this to discover near home
Today's ride: Back on cliffs above Saint-Cirq-Lapopie because... why not? Few drops of rain a welcome refreshment!
Second ride of the day: short cool down with Pratiwi, who also tried #HaySurfing for the first time Not bad!
Beautiful sunrise ride to avoid forecast heat. Rolling hills & shady forests actually made for perfect conditions
Today's ride: Dodging cattle normally no big deal but when herd has young & giant bull present some care required!
Beaut Baronnies ride this morning. Road in the background is typical of the area: nothing straight & nothing flat!
Beautiful day up top Felt knackered when leaving home but much better after this. Wish it was always the way!
